Meet T-Rex, the 17-Year-Old Girl Boxer Headed to the Olympics

It didn’t take much for any of us to know that Claressa was unique,” Drea Cooper, Zackary Canepari, and Sue Jaye Johnson explain on their Kickstarter page, where they are funding a film about the rising star. Claressa Shields, aka “T-Rex,” is the youngest female boxer competing at the 2012 Olympics, which will feature women’s boxing for the first time in history.